The Monster Duke Mistook Me for His Wife

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“Achoo!”

 

It’s not even summer, but the tip of my nose was tickled from playing in the water earlier.

 

My body shivered from being in the water for too long.

 

“You should wash up, quickly.”

 

As I walked down the hallway with my body dripping with water, the servants who saw me were startled and flustered.

 

In the meantime, a quick-witted servant brought a towel and covered our bodies with it.

 

“I will prepare the hot water right now.”

 

When I saw people moving around in the middle of the night, I couldn’t even raise my face.

 

“Miss Ria, let’s go up quickly.”

 

I pulled a towel over my shoulders and covered my face.

 

It looks like an ostrich that just sticks its head in the ground….

 

It was a very one-dimensional thought, but if I didn’t do this, I felt like I would die of shame.

 

Perhaps he read my thoughts, Dillian wrapped his towel around my shoulders.

 

Suddenly wrapped in a towel, I ran into the room like a chased person.

 

Then Nathan, who was receiving Sera’s massage, got up.

 

“What, what the! This bundle of towels!”

“Nathan. It’s me.”

 

I threw the towel that was covering my head.

 

Then Nathan, who was relieved, jumped up again.

 

“Ria, your lips!”

 

Ugh, that’s right! I hurriedly covered my lips as I remembered a kiss with Dillian belatedly.

 

My heart was pounding like someone caught doing something bad.

 

“It looks like you were playing in the water, are there any leeches there?”

“Yu, yup!”

 

So, he doesn’t know. That was the time when I swept my heart out of relief.

 

“… You think I would say that? Dillian, you unscrupulous brat!”

 

He vigorously pecked Dillian’s head.

 

It was so fast that I couldn’t tell if he was an owl or a woodpecker.

 

It’s going to be a big deal if something goes wrong with that.

 

“Nathan, you might put a hole in his head.”

“You, you! Are you on Dillian’s side now? Not me?”

 

My baby who was raised nicely…! Nathan stumbled, saying he couldn’t agree with this.

 

Fortunately, Sera safely received Nathan’s body as he collapsed.

 

“Sera….”

“Yes, Nathan-nim. I am here.”

“Ria, our Ria…!”

“Don’t call a living human like someone dead.”

“Ria…!”

 

Perhaps it was quite a shock that I had taken Dillian’s side, Nathan called out my name in a sorrowful tone.

 

At the cute thousands of years old of age. The tantrum Nathan murmured.

 

If I let him, he might cry, the moment I approached Nathan.

 

Dillian blocked my way.

 

“Why…?”

“There is a way for Nathan to cheer up.”

“How?”

“Like this.”

 

He approached me and kissed my cheek.

 

Chuu, Nathan, who had been wilting at the sound of peck, abruptly got up.

 

Dillian smiled triumphantly as if he had predicted this, and frowned his eyes.

 

“Right?”

“Dillian, you braaaat!”

 

A huge roar erupted from Nathan’s mouth. It was a momentum that would not be strange even if it spit fire.

 

Of course, Dillian lightly ignored it.

 

“Miss Ria, don’t sleep, I will be waiting for you.”

“Pardon? Why?”

“Today is a historic day. We have to be together until dawn.”

 

My face turned white with those meaningful words.

 

Why is it white and not red?

 

Being shy now wasn’t a problem. The problem was Nathan, who spewed a ghastly life from behind.

 

“I will be here soon.”

 

And the person who detonated the bomb leisurely left the room.

 

‘No way, I’m the one who has to take responsibility afterward!’

 

In the end, facing the time bomb without any protective gear, I rolled my eyes.

 

I desperately avoided Nathan’s eyes. To the extent that anyone could see him as a Medusa.

 

“Ria, as expected, that brat forced you…!”

“… I did it first.”

“Accch!”

“Nathan!”

 

Nathan fell backward with a choked sound at my blow.

  

***

  

After soaking my wet body in warm water while drying it, Nathan creepily patted his feet on the bed.

 

“Ria, come here and sit down.”

“… Okay.”

 

As if rebuking a daughter for an accident, I naturally fell to my knees before the atmosphere and gaze.

 

The combination of a little owl and a grown adult kneeling in front of it was not strange at all.

 

As proof of that, Sera’s face, which turned while licking her lips, was caught at the edge of my field of vision.

 

“Phew, Ria. I don’t want to meddle in your private life, but this is no way. Far from having a wedding, you’re not even a couple, historic day, he says!”

“Nathan, we start dating today.”

“… Even if you’re dating, it’s still too early to start sharing love!”

 

Sharing love…? Don’t tell me, that’s what I’m thinking…?

 

“You, you! What are you talking about!”

“I’m afraid that Dillian will eat you up!”

“Ea, eat me up? Do I look that easy?”

“Of course!”

 

I was arguing for nothing, only the nagging increased. I closed my eyes tightly, as my face dyed red at the primary color expression pouring from overhead.

 

To learn about sex education at the age of 22….

 

It’s a very subtle and complicated feeling.

 

At the same time, I felt that I was so loved, and I was happy.

 

“Never, never, never do that. Got it?”

“Yeah, I got it. So let’s stop….”

 

That was the tenth time if it was repeated once again.

 

Just when I wanted to stretch out my body, Dillian opened the door and appeared in pajamas.

 

“That crazy brat! Get out right now!”

“It’s you who should get out.”

 

Dillian immediately accepted Nathan’s words and summoned Sera to the reinforcements.

 

“Sera, take it.”

“Yes, Your Grace.”

 

In the blink of an eye, Sera, holding Nathan in her arms, grabbed the doorknob.

 

“Se, Sera? How can you, to me?”

“I am sorry.”

 

Nathan struggled and tried to escape as hard as he could, but he couldn’t escape the skilled hands of the former assassin.

 

“Hey, you brat, Dillian! How can you take over Sera!”

“It’s not a takeover, she was originally my subordinate.”

 

Click, the door opened. Nathan, foreseeing the end of the sound, hurriedly shouted.

 

“Ria! Heed my words! Never do such an embarrassing thing before the wedding! This dad will never allow it!”

 

Nathan’s warning echoed through the closed door.

 

Dillian rubbed his chin with a force several times more ferocious than usual.

 

“Just as Miss Ria got permission from my grandfather, I must also get permission from my father-in-law.”

“Are you talking about Nathan?”

“He said he was Miss Ria’s father, his crying would be reduced if I treated him like a father-in-law.”

 

Sounds like it will still cry one way or another.

 

As I looked at him with absurd eyes, Dillian, who pulled his lips softly, patted my waist.

 

“Or, should I commit it first and get permission?”

“No, that. Whoa!”

 

In an instant, my vision was turned. The bed against the back was soft.

 

Blinking my eyes and looking at the ceiling, I swallowed my saliva at the large shadow that was setting over my head.

 

“… Are you really going to be like this?”

“I will do more.”

 

Dillian, who had locked me between his arms, bent down slowly.

 

Light kisses started from the forehead and poured down in turn toward the nose and cheeks.

 

The lips that were hovering around the face found my lips, the destination, and covered them at once.

 

Sweet and wet breaths flowed from the overlapping lips. My shoulders shrugged at the sound of wet sounds in my ears.

 

‘What should I do?’

 

If it keeps going, it feels like we will do it, so I quickly pushed his chest out.

 

“Haa.”

 

A hot breath spread over his face.

 

“Sir Dillian, wait a minute, calm down.”

“… I am calming down.”

 

Calming down my ass, your eyes are half gone.

 

I swallowed dry saliva in the shimmering red eyes that seemed to catch me at any moment.

 

Frightened by the hand that slowly climbed up my waist, I rolled away from his arms and clasped my back against the head of the bed.

 

“Sit down first.”

“Miss Ria.”

“You can’t. Hurry.”

 

With my arms folded, as I resolutely said no more, Dillian shook his head as if he had no choice.

 

It looked like he was giving up, but he was aiming at my thighs eventually.

 

In the meantime, Dillian laid down on my thigh.

 

As I trembled at the weight of my thighs, he smiled like a bad boy and hugged my stomach.

 

“What, what the!”

“I am very tired, so I have to lie down. If Miss Ria is uncomfortable, you can lie down too.”

 

I will never. I know what will happen if I lie down.

 

As I take a glance at the fluffy-eyed Dillian, I reach out to his hair which tickles my thigh.

 

Maybe he felt good when I touched the tip of his hair and playing with it, Dillian acted calmly.

 

“Since when did you like me?”

 

My hands stopped at the drowsy question.

 

“… I don’t know.”

“You say you don’t know again. Shall we kiss again until you know?”

 

Dillian reached out and stroked my lips as if he thought I was avoiding the answer.

 

‘I’m afraid he will asking it.’

 

How can you not miss any chance? I lifted Dillian’s hand from his lips and clasped our hands tightly.

 

“I’m not avoiding it, I really don’t know.”

 

Isn’t there a saying that many drops make a flood? I was just that case.

 

“When I realized, I already liked you.”

 

I looked straight into Dillian’s eyes and spoke slowly.

 

Not the impulsive and messy confession I had before, but with the sincerity I really wanted to show.

 

“It’s not that I hide that I like you. Not a messy confession, but I wanted to have a proper confession instead.”

 

But it wasn’t that easy. There is such a thing as timing, but that timing didn’t come to me.

 

“I have to tell you today, I have to tell you tomorrow, I delay it and delay it… Yes, it exploded today.”

 

I scratched my cheek in a sense of embarrassment. Under the bright light, I was embarrassed to speak with a sane mind.

 

“I like you. It’s not because of fate or anything like that, because it’s you, so I came to like you.”

 

Dillian’s eyes swelled up greatly at my humble confession.

 

Embarrassed by those hot eyes, I gently placed my hand over his eyes.

 

“… Miss Ria, I can’t see you.”